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Scotch WMA closing down #1746285
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Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: SouthBamaSlayer] #1746288
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Wouldn't doubt it..The government is screwing the landowners! Hell I'd pull my property to


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Everyone. All of them...

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Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: SouthBamaSlayer] #1746290
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Man that's turrible. I didn't hunt there but hate to see any land withdrawn from the WMA system.


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Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: SouthBamaSlayer] #1746310
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Reasons are understandable. It sucks.

But just another move toward the direction of working the working class out of hunting completely.

I can drive there in 15 minutes. 19k of free access in my backyard gone.

Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: SouthBamaSlayer] #1746316
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Decision was made a long time ago. Don't blame scotch, blame policy.

Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: SouthBamaSlayer] #1746321
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What exactly did the black pine snake have to do with the closing of the property?

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Originally Posted By: James
Wouldn't doubt it..The government is screwing the landowners! Hell I'd pull my property to


Care to explain?

Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: SouthBamaSlayer] #1746338
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They raped the land anyway. Not many trees left.

I hunted it back in the 90's and it was some fine country.


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Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: Mbrock] #1746342
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Originally Posted By: Mbrock

Originally Posted By: James
Wouldn't doubt it..The government is screwing the landowners! Hell I'd pull my property to


Care to explain?


I would. But not on a public forum.

Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: SouthBamaSlayer] #1746344
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I been hunting down there 30 years gonna be hard to tell me they didn't know it was coming the way they cut Timber last two years. Somebody knowed this was comeing . I said this year when I saw it looked like a dessert it wouldn't surprise me if they were fixed to shut it down like Boykin. Timber hasn't been cut like this since I been going to it.

Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: timbercruiser] #1746349
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Originally Posted By: timbercruiser
What exactly did the black pine snake have to do with the closing of the property?


I was wondering the same thing. Got to be a back story to this.


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Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: Rebelman] #1746351
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Originally Posted By: Rebelman

Originally Posted By: Mbrock

Originally Posted By: James
Wouldn't doubt it..The government is screwing the landowners! Hell I'd pull my property to


Care to explain?


I would. But not on a public forum.
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Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: SouthBamaSlayer] #1746352
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U ain't lived to you been setting in the middle of that place and heard them cut close to 200 dogs loose all around ya. I've had some fun down there but she is gone know

Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: SouthBamaSlayer] #1746357
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The more I think about this the more it begins to add up. It ain't luck that this wma is closing and nothing has been said about it, and then the state is decided out of the goodness of there heart to open another wma for dog hunting this year that was closed to it the last several years and let a man from the ADA run the hunt instead of the state. Who is buddies with Mr. Sykes

Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: SouthBamaSlayer] #1746369
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I have never hunted on a WMA, but I sure hate to hear that for those that have........


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Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: SouthBamaSlayer] #1746377
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doc bar - that's a lot of assumptions!

For the record, I stated it's understandable and likely would do the exact same thing.

That doesn't change my view on the money game of hunting, especially in the south. I believe clearly there will be a day when I will not hunt due to finances, and there will be no options. That's ok, because hunting is not an important part of life - it's just a hobby. It's just disheartening how little public land is available in southern states.

Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: timbercruiser] #1746382
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Originally Posted By: timbercruiser
What exactly did the black pine snake have to do with the closing of the property?


I suspect the pine snake thing to be a cover for the real reason BUT......

I guess they could think that unfettered access to the property for Gov employees could result in Pine Snake sightings resulting in loss of land use. In other words not being able to manage the land as they see fit due to the existence of an endangered or "threatened" species. Just like the tracts in Monroe County that can't be cut due to the Red Hill Salamander or the Red Cockaded Woodpecker.


Don't get me wrong, I'm all for species being preserved but they go about it ALL wrong. They essentially "take" the land (or its value) by restricting the landowners right to harvest timber, or other management steps he might wish to take. The natural reaction if a landowner sees something like that on his place now is to get rid of it, quickly).

If there was some sort of compensation for not being able to use his land as he wishes (darn those pesky private property rights) there might be more people incentivized to help propagate the species.

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There's two thoughts going on here.

- Don't blame these landowner's. There's not enough incentive to be enrolled, when other options are available. Not one person who gets upset about it would likely have it enrolled either.

- public land in the south (AL especially), will continue to lose acres unless something changes. But it probably won't change. And that's concerning.

Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: SouthBamaSlayer] #1746396
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I hate it for y'all that hunt it but I don't blame Scotch. Call me crazy but I believe the federal government will make up anything without scientific research to back it up to stop any and all hunting.


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Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: SouthBamaSlayer] #1746400
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Its their land, they own it, it was a privilege that they let the public use it for so long. They really did not have to give any explanation but they felt they needed to. So that's that. They may sell it soon, so what, its none of our business what they do with it now.


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Originally Posted By: Skinny
Its their land, they own it, it was a privilege that they let the public use it for so long. They really did not have to give any explanation but they felt they needed to. So that's that. They may sell it soon, so what, its none of our business what they do with it now.


Correct - it's not surprising they take them out. It's surprising they keep them in.

Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: SouthBamaSlayer] #1746417
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Govt intervention over suspected endangered species is a real thing.

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How much of the tract still has natural old growth hardwoods?

Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: SouthBamaSlayer] #1746426
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So.........with the loss of Scotch, wolf creek, and Boykin in such a small amount of time I expect the WMA permit fee to be going down.........you state boys relay that to the omniscient fellas in charge. Or maybe that's silly and losing three WMAs is the DCNR's plan of attrition to have more boots on the ground without hiring anyone.

Which ones next..............

Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: SouthBamaSlayer] #1746529
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Nobody has time to worry about Public Land, State Parks and such.
Heck, there are new Regulations to write, budgets to manipulate and Hogs to study!

Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: SouthBamaSlayer] #1746543
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Looks like there will be 19,000 acres available for lease in the near future.

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Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: SouthBamaSlayer] #1746607
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End of an era. First ones to go were Covington and Escambia Creek. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the scotch property went up for sale and forever wild got it. Seems like most WMAs down here are owned by FW or the state now.


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Originally Posted By: slippinlipjr
It wouldn't surprise me at all if the scotch property went up for sale and forever wild got it.


Not very likely. It's family land. Surrounded by other family land in the area / county. The land is managed just like their other lands. It was just a nice gesture to make it public for so long.

Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: SouthBamaSlayer] #1746618
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Sounds like something is rotten in Denmark. If anyone knows the real reason, pm me, I'd like to hear that story more so than the one being told in this article.


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Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: slippinlipjr] #1746627
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Originally Posted By: slippinlipjr
First ones to go were Covington and Escambia Creek.


Before they cut every damn tree, Covington had some fine hunting. Never had much luck with Escambia Creek.


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Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: SouthBamaSlayer] #1746631
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It sucks to lose public hunting lands. Truly does. But these still are privately owned lands. The owners are not just going to roll over and say "Well, it's being used for public hunting so we can't cut timber, manage or do anything."

Given the financial straights many state wildlife agencies are in throughout the country, private (or corporate) owners allowing lands to be used for public hunting and other uses probably will continue to decline. Liability, the constant complaints about nitpicky things, possibly being hamstrung by some agreements, getting whacked by the feds on some issues (like this snake thing) ... it's no surprise that a big private landowner or corporate owner would end a public-use agreement and keep it in house.


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Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: SouthBamaSlayer] #1746635
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I would guess that the aggravation out weighs the tax break.


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Originally Posted By: jacannon
I would guess that the aggravation out weighs the tax break.
I wanna say there would be no more tax break, I may be wrong on that?


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Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: N2TRKYS] #1746654
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Originally Posted By: N2TRKYS
Sounds like something is rotten in Denmark. If anyone knows the real reason, pm me, I'd like to hear that story more so than the one being told in this article.


No tin hat on this one.


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The ESA is a powerful tool that the antis use to bludgeon everyone they can. I'm not sure what's at play here but the language of the statement suggests such rotten characters are involved.


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I don't wear tinfoil hats, but I tend to agree with Ticka. The ESA has so much mumbo-jumbo, red tape and such that it appears it could be rife for possible abuse and few in the public could fight it.

Who the hell knows how many Special Snowflake Snakes or Totally Rad Turtles lived in a place 150+ years ago and how many are there now? So 19,000+ acres is impacted because of 20 snakes found over three decades? Or the "Gulf Beach Mouse" that looks like a friggin' hamster and only has been seen by a few people will prohibit, limit or restrict development, even by a guy who owns land and wants to put up a little beach shack?

It just sucks sometimes, or makes you wonder if antis are pulling strings, when a spider or mouse or green-eyed horsefly has more power thanks to the Feds and the ESA.


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Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: SouthBamaSlayer] #1746668
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If you own land, in southwest alabama, especially land where timber production is a priority, you may want to be brushing up on black pine snake current events. I don't care if you own 40 acres or 4000. No tinfoil hat needed. This is quickly becoming a reality.....


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A client of mine challenged the beach mouse crap years ago. He had a guy trap a few of them, did DNA on them and found that they are just a dang barn mouse, no difference.

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In 98 that damn beach mouse shut down a multimillion dollar condo construction site in Fort Morgan I was working on.


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I'm 50 years old. I don't know for how many of those years decades I've heard about this elusive "beach mouse" that has supposedly lived and needs protection along the GS/OB coastline (short as it is). I've been up at all hours of the day and night at the beach, been out at night with lights, been in supposed "beach mouse" territory. Never have seen one. They damn sure must be "threatened."

Of course, I've had a hunting license for 34 years and never have received a post-season hunting survey, either. Those things must be protected, too. LOL


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Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: N2TRKYS] #1746693
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Originally Posted By: N2TRKYS
Sounds like something is rotten in Denmark.


I bet wolves are eating coonhounds over there.


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Originally Posted By: N2TRKYS
Sounds like something is rotten in Denmark.


I bet wolves are eating coonhounds over there.


Nailed it. It's the wolves for sure.



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Scotch WMA has wolves?


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Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: Clem] #1746754
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Originally Posted By: Clem

Scotch WMA has wolves?


Yes... and Painters..... Black ones.....


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I saw a beach mouse once. Either that or a rat.

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Originally Posted By: Clem

I'm 50 years old. I don't know for how many of those years decades I've heard about this elusive "beach mouse" that has supposedly lived and needs protection along the GS/OB coastline (short as it is). I've been up at all hours of the day and night at the beach, been out at night with lights, been in supposed "beach mouse" territory. Never have seen one. They damn sure must be "threatened."

Of course, I've had a hunting license for 34 years and never have received a post-season hunting survey, either. Those things must be protected, too. LOL



Have you kept your address up to date with the DCNR? If not, they might have sent you several over the years! LOL


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I am sure there are plans to add more land to Skyline because apparently there is not enough public hunting land in Jackson County yet. wink


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Have you kept your address up to date with the DCNR? If not, they might have sent you several over the years! LOL


They sent my new Lifetime last week so I'm on their radar!


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Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: doekiller] #1746844
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Originally Posted By: doekiller
I saw a beach mouse once. Either that or a rat.


Saw one down here on the beach too. He was in a dumpster, and pulled a knife on me.

They're not as cute and cuddly as we're led to believe.


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Originally Posted By: Clem

I'm 50 years old. I don't know for how many of those years decades I've heard about this elusive "beach mouse" that has supposedly lived and needs protection along the GS/OB coastline (short as it is). I've been up at all hours of the day and night at the beach, been out at night with lights, been in supposed "beach mouse" territory. Never have seen one. They damn sure must be "threatened."

Of course, I've had a hunting license for 34 years and never have received a post-season hunting survey, either. Those things must be protected, too. LOL



I've got a picture of one...being eaten by a red fox on the beach near Ft Morgan. Will have to get it off my work computer tomorrow.

Re: Scotch WMA closing down [Re: Clem] #1746940
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Originally Posted By: Clem



Of course, I've had a hunting license for 34 years and never have received a post-season hunting survey, either. Those things must be protected, too. LOL



If you want I'll just forward my annual survey to you next year. In the end I guess it doesn't matter which of us does it except they really must value my opinion. It's about every year for me, but I don't mind doing it if they put the data to use.


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I agree, it's their decision to remove the land or allow for public use. It's probably likely other private lands that remain WMAs will eventually be lost as well.

To help off set this trend we can support DCNR and their recent efforts to create new or re-establish WMAs. There is a new one in Autauga County and hopefully others in the future.

If you know of a good tract with an owner interested in selling, nominate that land in the Forver Wild Land Trust program.

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